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Old July 29th 14, 08:15 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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What can you say?? An awesome pilot flying a finely tuned unique machine on his home turf. Incredible!!
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Old July 29th 14, 10:11 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:15:45 PM UTC-4, wrote:
What can you say?? An awesome pilot flying a finely tuned unique machine on his home turf. Incredible!!


I think is is an eagle dressed as human...


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Old July 29th 14, 10:57 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Could be!!!
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Old July 30th 14, 10:53 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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I dunno, it all looks pretty close to me.
Less than 100pts covering the top 6, could be anyone's contest.

They're all incredible pilots, flying very similar gliders.

KN

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Could be!!!


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Old July 30th 14, 02:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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On 07/29/2014 3:15 PM, wrote:
What can you say?? An awesome pilot flying a finely tuned unique machine on his home turf. Incredible!!


According to his blog (
http://www.sebastiankawa.pl/6504/cze...w-szpargalach/
) Sebastian got a hold of this glider shortly before the contest.
Apparently it was sitting in someones garage gathering dust.
Interestingly enough, this is Diana 2 SN#3 formerly VH-VHZ.. the same
one that was the center of the unfortunate dispute between Ms. Hana
Zejdova and Mr. Bogumil Beres.

Luke
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Old July 30th 14, 03:02 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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The fact the Kawa has won or nearly won so many World Championships (and major European and FAI contests) in such a short period of time, in so many classes and in so many different gliders models is simply astonishing. Especially impressive is his dominance of the "World Championship of World Championships" (in my opinion), the incredibly challenging FAI Sailplane Grand Prix World Championship events.

In that exceptionally difficult discipline of pure glider racing (and no compromise or excuses, Assigned Tasks only) Kawa has won every single event in which he has entered except for one. In that event, Kawa was a very close second to a pilot who was flying at his home location of Sisteron, France (a very technical flying site). That pilot was actually a lifelong instructor at Sisteron! Kawa had never flown at Sisteron before and still was only barely defeated on the last day in very weak, difficult conditions.

Kawa is simply at a different level. I do not think it's even comparable. Nobody else is even close to his overall accomplishments, his consistency or his raw talent. Kawa will soon be known, if he is not already, as the best glider racing pilot in history. Its not even close. It's obvious. He won Uvalde by 600 points! That's unheard of...

Any glider racing pilot (or cross country pilot for that matter) who does not carefully study Kawa's flight traces is simply not serious, IMO.
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Old July 31st 14, 10:16 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014 16:02:53 UTC+2 schrieb Sean Fidler:
Kawa has won every single event in which he has entered except for one.


He just placed second in the standard class WGC in Finland.
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Old July 31st 14, 10:36 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014 16:02:53 UTC+2 schrieb Sean Fidler:

Kawa is simply at a different level. I do not think it's even comparable.. Nobody else is even close to his overall accomplishments, his consistency or his raw talent. Kawa will soon be known, if he is not already, as the best glider racing pilot in history. Its not even close. It's obvious. He won Uvalde by 600 points! That's unheard of...




He won Uvalde by 400 Points and got half of them on the last day, in a competition with more than 10.000 points overall.
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Old July 31st 14, 01:14 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Not quite unheard of - the Jones brothers just won the 20M 2 seater Worlds
by nearly 900 points (and winning 6 out of 7 days), agaist a field with
World and European Champions competing. Flying at the same site where
their Father represented GB in the 1976 Worlds. Remarkable family.

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Am Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014 16:02:53 UTC+2 schrieb Sean Fidler:

Kawa is simply at a different level. I do not think it's even

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He won Uvalde by 400 Points and got half of them on the last day, in a
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Old July 31st 14, 04:14 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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You are correct! It appears that Sebastian Kawa won the 2012 15 Meter Class World Championship at WGC Uvalde 2012 by ONLY 440 points (not quite 600). I don't understand what you mean by gaining half of those points on the final day. It appears that Kawa gained only 7 points on the last day (13). Not to shabby, regardless.

http://wgc2012uvalde.com/index.php?o...110&I temid=7

15m (flapped) and Standard (un-flapped) are arguably the most competitive classes at each of the 2 bi-annual World Championships right now. I imagine this is why Kawa competes in those classes and not 18 meter, yet. 18 meter is probably very close to matching or even surpassing 15 meter as the most competitive class, IMO. But, Poland is fairly nationalistic, and Poland does not have its own 18m glider yet.

In terms of Kawa's fairly uncharacteristic second place finish at the 2014 Standard Class WGC Finland, the weather conditions were very poor in Finland overall except for the final competition day. It was a bit of a crapshoot (from what I heard) and that makes yet another consistent second place finish by Sebastian Kawa even more impressive (for me at least).

I am not sure the fine details matter that much. I stand behind my statement that Kawa's: 1) major contest record (numerous World Championships, FAI Grand Prix, Major European events), 2) consistency (second is a poor contest for him, even at this level), 3) raw talent and 4) ability to be competitive in multiple classes and gliders is something the world has never seen before in the sport of soaring. In fact, nobody else is (or has been) remotely close.

Kawa is the best competition glider pilot ever, by far and without question.. He has the whole world gunning for him every contest. The only question is how long can he maintain this run!
 




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